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• [S97] Detroit Michigan City Directory -- 1935 (n.p.: n.pub.).
• [S195] Arizona Department of Health Services, "Arizona Office of Vital Records," digital images, Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates, (http://genealogy.az.gov : accessed by Carl Fields Feb 2009), Registrar's Number 770) James Wesley Fields Death Certificate (State File Number 156, 4 June 1941. Both of his parents were listed as born in New York, Arkansas on this document. That is an error. The actual location was Newark, Arkansas.
• [S203] Arizona Department of Health Services, "Arizona Office of Vital Statistics," digital images, Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates, (http://genealogy.az.gov : accessed by Carl Fields Feb 2009), Mamie Chamberlain Fields Death Certificate, 6 May 1946.
• [S216] Memory Card -- Janete Rankin Pucek (n.pub.).
• [S276] Arizona Department of Health Services, "Arizona Office of Vital Statistics," digital images, Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates, (http://genealogy.az.gov : accessed by Carl Fields Feb 2009), Sally Lorraine Fields Birth Certificate (child's name had not been selected when birth certificate was issued so a supplementary report provides the name), 10 February 1923.
• [S306] "U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : unknown access2 date), entry for unknown subject, unknown date, unknown location; based on "Nationwide Gravesite Locator," United States, National Cemetery Administration.
• [S316] John Lehr and Susan Gabel, White Dove Cemetery -- Lincoln County, Oklahoma, database, Bob and Tammie Chada, Oklahoma Cemeteries (Mailing List Homepage), (http://www.okcemeteries.net/lincoln/whitedove/whitedove.htm : accessed 17 Feb 2009), Fields Richard G.. Hereinafter cited as White Dove Cemetery Web Site -- Lincoln County, Oklahoma, entry for Richard G. Fields.
• [S323] WWII Draft Registration Card, 1942 (Ancestry.com Data Base (Fourth Draft Registration)).
• [S374] 1880 United States Census, Arkansas, population schedule, Big Bottom Township, Independence County, p 20, Household 165, M. L. Arnold; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields Jan 2007) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T9.
• [S404] "California Death Records (1940-1997)," database, RootsWeb.com (http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death : June 2000), Elouise Katherine Fields, 16 Nov 1990, Nevada County, CA; Source: The California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, Sacramento. Mother's Maiden Name: Chamberlaine (sic); Father's Name: not listed; Female; Born: 29 December 1918, Arkansas; SS# 551-14-0960, age 71 (specific location of birth is an assumption by Carl Fields based on information about Clarence Fields's residence in 1917 and 1920).
  
• [S434] 1920 United States Census, Arkansas, Rock Creek Township (listed as Beaver by Ancestry.com transcriber) (ED 109), Searcy County, p 4B (Image 350), Household 66, Charles A Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 2 August 2005) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T625.
• [S452] 1920 United States Census, Arkansas, Wycough Township (ED 36), Independence County (Ancestry.com lists location as Logan Township), p 10A (Image 309), Household 191, James R Prince; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 28 July 2006) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T625.
• [S598] Ada Chamberlain Grave Marker, Greenwood Cemetery Phoenix, Arizona; recorded by Carl Fields, March 2005. Marker is near marker for Mamie H. (Howard) (Chamberlain) Fields; Della Sarah (Moore Fields) Clark marker is also nearby. Marker is inscribed: Chamberlain, Son Frank 1900-1944, Ada 1872-1963. In Block 14, Section 20. The "marker name" used in this citation most likely corresponds to the name on the marker or on burial records (e.g., married surnames may appear for women). The name "Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery" was in use in March 2005 (and is current as of May 2013). This cemetery was created in 1989 by the merger of the adjacent Greenwood and Memory Lawn Cemeteries. Several family members were interred before that merger, so their burial records, obituaries, death certificates, etc., will use one of the older names, probably most commonly the Greenwood name.
• [S677] 1940 U. S. Census, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, population schedule, Enumeration District 7-55B, page 3A, Line 21, Household 65 (visited 18 April 1940), Mamie Fields -- informant was not indicated; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields June 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 105, image 710.
• [S678] 1940 U. S. Census, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, population schedule, Enumeration District 7-142, page 62A, Line 6, Household 65 (visited 26 April 1940), R G Fields -- informant was Elouise Fields, wife; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields June 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 108, image 616. "Incorporated Place" is blank on form, but it seems to be within the city of Phoenix based on the street address.
• [S720] 1940 U. S. Census, Redding, Shasta County, California, population schedule, Enumeration District 45-4A, page 4A, Line 34, Household 89 (visited 5 April 1940), William Pucek -- informant was William Pucek; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields June 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 344, image 175.
• [S746] "U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 4 Sep 2012), entry for William H Pucek, 16 Mar 1943, Sacramento, California; based on " Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 ," United States, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 64, College Park, MD.
• [S747] "U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 4 Sep 2012), entry for Richard G Fields, 16 Dec 1943, Phoenix, Arizona; based on " Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 ," United States, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 64, College Park, MD.
• [S772] Charles Prince Cemetery Marker, Blue Springs Cemetery, Newark, Independence County, Arkansas; Carl Fields, read July 2000 (and on other dates).
• [S778] 1940 U. S. Census, McKinley Township, Douglas County, Missouri, population schedule, Enumeration District 34-16, page 3B, Line 78, Household 51 (visited 14 April 1940), Anson Fields -- informant was Anson Fields; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields 10 Sep 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 2103, image 643. This census information for this household continues onto the next sheet (Sheet 4A).
• [S782] Lester Letson, Sanger Cemetery, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 Sep 2012), Ida Mae Baldwin, Memorial No. 27121272.
• [S792] "Obituary: Ida Mae Baldwin," Sanger (California) Herald,17 Jun 1976; microfilm, Fresno County Public Library, Sanger Branch Library, a secondary image was created by photographing the article from the display screen of a microfilm viewer using a digital camera (this image was later edited to improve contrast and to remove nearby articles not of primary interest).
• [S793] "Obituary: Charles Fields," Sanger (California) Herald,18 Aug 1977; microfilm, Fresno County Public Library, Sanger Branch Library, a secondary image was created by photographing the article from the display screen of a microfilm viewer using a digital camera (this image was later edited to improve contrast and to remove nearby articles not of primary interest).
• [S809] "U. S. Public Records Index, Volume 1," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 17 Sep 2012), Elouise K. Fields, Born: 29 Dec 1918; based on (citing) Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listiings (but not complete, said to span all 50 states from 1950 to 1999).
• [S850] 1930 US Federal Census, Oklahoma, population schedule, Econtuchka Township (ED 67-7) Seminole County, p 30B (Image 428), Household 742 (Dwelling 684), Linus H Baldwin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 2009), based on NARA Microfilm Publication T626, FHL microfilm 2341664.
• [S854] Delmer Horton, Sanger CA, to Carl Fields, e-mail, "Merry Christmas" (discussing several family history information items), 24 Dec 2012 and 5 Jan 2013; , Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders). Information items in this e-mail included the following: (1) Ruth Fields (daughter of Anson and Zona) married Lee Scott in Missouri (near community of Possum Trot, where Bill Fields had a store and lumber yard); (2) Scott family were some of the oldest settlers in that area; (3) Anson had a sawmill west of the Collins place (Collins who was father-in-law of Henry Clarence Fields) in a location called Cord Holler (Hollow); (4) some photos exist of that sawmill (or the community), with Henry, Cecil, and Della Fields, and Delmer's "Grandma Emily"; (5) George and Anson? Fields went to Oklahoma in the oil fields before going to CA in the 1940s; (6) Lindsey W., Cecil, and Gene also worked in the oil fields in Oklahoma; (7) Henry Fields had a kiln so he could use buy green lumber and dry it, he also planed lumber and shaped pieces for housing construction (several other details are given); (8) Henry Fields apparently acquired property in the area by paying off Willy Bittick's back taxes, but Willy's twin brother, Rovie, owned the other half of the property and sold his half (or his interest?) to some one else; (9) George Fields's first wife was Harley Bittick, who died from pneumonia, as did her baby named Virginia; (10) Grace Fields Blankenship died at a young age from appendicitis; (11) Grace had a daughter named Jardiene; (12) several sons of Anson and Zona served in WWII; (13) Zona would attend movie theaters especially to see the newsreels and (over time) saw glimpses of each son in the service in these newsreels; (14) one son, Marvin, was a driver for General MacArthur; (15) Sammie Fields died in a fire in a small cabin on his parent's property in Sanger, possibly in 1948; and Michael Fields (9 Jan 1952 to 29 Mar 1952, according to Find-a-Grave) was the son of Howard and Ella Fields -- Howard is the son of H. C. Fields. Most of this information is stated in the e-mail to be based on a discussion or interview Delmer held with his mother, Lois Fields Horton, on 14 November 2012. The second e-mail (really titiled "Re: Merry Christmas") corrected a couple items in the first e-mail and added the information about Michael Fields.
• [S920] 1910 US Census, Texas, Palestine (Precinct 1), Anderson County, 8A, Dwelling 41 Household 41, L. J. (Mrs) Chamberlin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 2013) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T624.
• [S937] Carl Fields, "Personal Recollections about Sally (Fields Winton) Fletcher" A Visit With Sally Fletcher
  
  The purpose of this note is to describe a visit with Sally Fletcher, a first cousin, on March 2, 2005 in Phoenix Arizona (AZ). (Note added May 2013: At the time of my visit, she went by the surname Fletcher, her second husband's surname. In her obituary, her surname was listed as Winton, her first husband's surname.)
  
  First, a few paragraphs to describe who she is. My dad was one of several children. His oldest brother, Clarence Fields, was born in 1890 (my dad was born in 1904). Clarence and his family moved from Arkansas to Phoenix AZ in (I believe) the early 1920s. Although they moved to Phoenix for his health, he died in 1925. Clarence and his wife, Mamie (maiden name: Chamberlain), had 5 children, the youngest of whom (born 1924) was named Sally Fields. Her current name is Sally Fletcher.
  
  Because of (1) the 14-year age difference between my dad and his oldest brother and (2) the fact that Clarence started having children around age 21, while I wasn’t born until my dad was almost 41, there is a large age difference between that group of 5 first cousins and me. Because of this age gap, and because they grew up in Arizona (a place I visited only once before I became an adult), I’ve had little contact with them. (The fact that their father was deceased – not there for my dad to stay in contact with – probably also contributed to this. He and his other brothers – and his one sister who lived into my lifetime – visited one another every few years throughout my childhood.)
  
  I first met Sally in July 2000 at the Newark, Arkansas school reunion. (The Newark school graduating classes are so small that they tend to not have class reunions; instead there are periodic reunions of everyone who ever attended the school. They hold these every 5 years – having started in 1985, I believe. I went to the ones held in 1995 and 2000, and hope and plan to go again this year – 2005.) Meeting Sally in Arkansas in 2000 was sort of an accident. She was in Arkansas visiting relatives on her mother’s side of her family (some of whom attended Newark schools and go to the reunions). The night before the reunion, she and some Chamberlain relatives were eating dinner at a catfish restaurant on the outskirts of Batesville at the same time two “”Fields-family” cousins (George Ann and Bennie, born 1932 and 1934, respectively) were having dinner in the same restaurant. Her Chamberlain cousins introduced Sally and her “Fields-family” cousins. George Ann and Bennie had apparently never previously met her (that they remembered). The next day, at the reunion, George Ann and Bennie introduced me to Sally (but we had only a few minutes to talk that day). [GEORGE ANN AND BENNIE WERE BOTH DAUGHTERS OF MY DAD’S YOUNGEST SISTER – A HALF SISTER, ACTUALLY – MY AUNT RUBY. BOTH GEORGE ANN AND BENNIE HAVE DIED SINCE THAT JULY 2000 SCHOOL REUNION.]
  
  I called Sally in late February 2005, because Linda and I were planning to go to AZ in March and (among other things) I wanted cemetery information about certain deceased relatives in order to do some genealogical research while there. She invited us to lunch on Wednesday, March 2, our first day in AZ (she was expecting company later in the week – and had been having some health problems – so she was going to be tied up with her company and with medical appointments the rest of the time we were in AZ).
  
  We drove to her house immediately after landing at the Phoenix Airport at around 10:30 AM (and collecting luggage and renting a car).
  
  She lives in an area called The Biltmore Estate. The Biltmore is a large hotel (sited on what was apparently originally a large plot of open land), somewhat north of downtown Phoenix (it’s now very much “in town,” but I’m pretty sure that was not the case when it was built). The Biltmore has, in the last 15 or 20 years apparently, divided some of the land around the hotel into homesites and sold them (or perhaps leased them for a very long term). There are now about 100 very large homes on the hotel grounds (her address is 66 Biltmore Estate – but it isn’t exactly a street address – the house numbers jump around a bit, perhaps the numbers were assigned in the order that the lots were laid out). I said the homesites are on the hotel grounds, but it might be more precise to say the lots are adjacent to the golf course associated with the hotel – the course sort of surrounds the hotel.
  
  Sally had given me directions over the phone on how to reach her house. The street she lives on doesn’t seem to have a name – the landmark for turning is a sign that says “Residents Only” (she said she has thought about having business cards made that list her address as “66 Residents Only”).
  
  When Linda and I first entered the Biltmore Estate area, we went past a gated community, which is apparently a group of condos. The area where Sally lives isn’t, strictly speaking, a gated community. Instead, each house is surrounded by a wall and/or fence, and has an individual motor-operated gate. Sally’s home is surrounded by a wall, with one section made of wrought iron fencing to allow a view of the golf course from some windows of the house (I call it wrought iron, but perhaps fencing made of vertical steel bars or rods is a more accurate description).
  
  She lives with her first cousin (from her mother’s side of the family), Helen Short – formerly Helen Chamberlain. They are about the same age. Sally was out doing errands when I got there, so Helen greeted us.
  
  Helen took us into what I first thought is the family room. It has a large semicircular bar in one end and a very large projection TV at the other end (the projection TV is sort of built into a section of a wall that has no windows, my first impression – before I looked at it closely – was that there is a fireplace at that end of the room, it was a minute or so before I realized it is a TV). One side of the room has windows that look to the street (down the driveway, past the doors to the 3-car garage), while the other looks over part of the back yard onto the golf course (this section of her “wall” is made of vertical steel bars to allow a view through it to the golf course). There is a wide shelf forming a large “U,” about 9 feet above the floor, around the end of the room that contains the TV (the ceilings are very high throughout the house, probably at least 12 ft in this particular room, maybe 14 ft). There are various mementos on this shelf – including several statues of roosters of various types – roosters are a theme running throughout the house, such as designs on pillows, napkin holders, etc. Later, I realized this room is really the kitchen. The refrigerator, oven, sink, etc., are all “inside” the area defined by the semicircular bar
  
  The wall on the golf course side of the room has what is probably called a breakfast nook built into it. It is an octagon-shaped extension of the room projecting into the back yard. It has been painted (by an artist) on the inside with vines and flowers – it is sort of like being inside a mural. The shape of the “nook” and the artwork on the walls give an effect of being in a gazebo (it has a gazebo-type ceiling and roof).
  
  After a while, Sally arrived and gave us a full tour of the house. It has formal living and dining rooms (with a baby grand piano in the living room), four bedrooms, and (at the opposite end of the house from the kitchen) the real “family room” – or perhaps a library. This “other end room” has a large bar, another built-in projection TV, and several bookshelf units – all in a darker-colored, more masculine, wood.
  
  Near the main entrance of the house is what I call the “zebra room.” It is a study, which she uses as a home office. There is a zebra-skin rug on the floor in front of her desk, and a zebra theme throughout the room in pillows, paintings, and even the covers of some notebooks on the shelves behind the desk. When I say zebra-skin rug, it is a real zebra skin (with holes where the eyes were; the ears make little flaps that stick out from the rest of the rug). When we first went through the room, it never occurred to me that such a thing existed. I just assumed the zebra rug was made of polyester or something. It wasn’t until we were talking later, and she mentioned that she got two zebra-skin rugs in her divorce settlement from Robert Fletcher, that I realized it is from a real zebra. I went back to look at it more closely later. (She gave the other rug to one of her sons.)
  
  A landscaped area just outside the front door of the house contains several statues of small children, which represent her children and grandchildren. The statues aren’t special-made (i.e., her real children and grandchildren did not pose for them), but the number of boys and girls matches up. Also, the grouping of statues of three small children representing Sally’s two sons and her daughter isn’t really possible because there is a ~20 year gap between her second child and her third, the daughter – all three weren’t small children at the same time. [THE NUMBER AND AGES OF HER CHILDREN WAS ALL NEW INFORMATION TO ME. AS I SAID, I’VE HAD LITTLE PRIOR CONTACT WITH THIS GROUP OF COUSINS.]
  
  One hallway in her house has a “photo wall,” with lots of family photos. This is something I wish I had paid closer attention to. However, at that point I was kind of in an information overload mode. Also, at that point, I didn’t have as good an understanding of who the various people in the pictures were (i.e., how they all fit together).
  
  She has a plasma TV mounted on the wall in her bedroom (which has two large walk-in closets). One of the other (guest) bedrooms is set up as a little girl’s room. She calls this Mallory’s room (that’s her daughter’s name), although, she said that, after she had waited 20 years for a little girl, Mallory was never very interested in “girl” things, like dolls. (She said Mallory was born in November 1963, just a week or so before President Kennedy was killed. She is a weathercaster for a radio station in Atlanta. Sally’s two sons, James and John, I believe, also live in the Atlanta area. Their last name is Winton, the last name of Sally’s first husband. Sally lived in Atlanta for a time and, I believe, still has a condo there.)
  
  There are personal touches throughout the house. For example, she has lots of pillows on couches with sayings embroidered on them (mostly funny ones). Also, she has a large collection of paper napkins with sayings and messages on them (and, as she gave Linda and me paper napkins to go along with a coke, she tried to find ones with appropriate messages for each of us). She has a small blackboard on her kitchen “bar” for messages and reminders. The day we were there, it said “Welcome Carl and Linda.”
  
  There are statues of animals and stuffed (plush) animals at several places in the house -- some of them quite realistic looking. She said that each of these is a near-image of a real pet that members of her family have owned at one time or another. (One of these was an Old English Sheepdog – I believe one of her sons had owned an OES.)
  
  After a while, another guest, her niece, Diane Fields came. Diane is a daughter of one of one of Sally’s brothers, Virgil Lindsay Fields (not to be confused with one of my dad’s brothers, Virgil Aaron Fields – I was taught to call my dad’s brother “Uncle Virgil,” but apparently the Arizona cousins called him “V.A.”). Diane is about 2 years younger than me (and has 11 grandchildren). She is divorced and took back her maiden name after the divorce.
  
  Sally took us all out to lunch at a private club near her house. The club is in what was once the Wrigley Mansion (this is the chewing gum company family). It seems to be on the same tract of land as the Biltmore Estate, but is on a small hill that gives it a view of the skyline of downtown Phoenix and the several in and around the city.
  
  The Wrigley Mansion is supposed to be an exact (or near exact) replica of a home that family owned in Avalon, a town on Catalina Island (off the coast of southern California). At first I thought the Wrigley Mansion had been built first and then the Wrigley family property was purchased as the site for the hotel. However, from some brochures I picked up there, it appears the Wrigley home was built a year or two after the hotel.
  
  After lunch, we went to the Biltmore Hotel to look inside it. The Phoenix Biltmore Hotel was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It opened around 1929 (there were signs and exhibits in the lobby concerning its 75th anniversary), but (probably because of the Frank Lloyd Wright influence) looks modern. Inside, they have an exhibit showing photos of various US presidents who have stayed there, along with several movie-star guests (most of them from the 1930s and 1940s, such as Bing Crosby and Randolph Scott). They also have a photo (probably from the 1930s) of a very young – and quite attractive – Martha Raye playing chess at a large outdoor chessboard on the grounds of the hotel – the chess pieces are about 2 ft high. They also have some photos showing people at the hotel’s former skeet shooting range; these were taken a few years after the hotel opened. The former existence of a skeet shooting range gives some idea of how far from the populated portion of Phoenix the hotel was when it was opened. Sally said she worked there (as a waitress, I think) around 60 years ago, shortly after her first son was born – he was ill as a baby and they had substantial medical bills.
  
  Sally took us around her neighborhood while going to and from lunch. There a large home in the Biltmore Estate owned by Paul Harvey (the radio newscaster). Glenn Campbell lives across the street and about 5 houses west of Sally. There is also a home, a few houses west of hers, where someone bought two existing adjacent houses, tore down the fence between them, and then built sort of a wing to connect the two houses. She wasn’t sure of that family’s name, but she thinks the family owns one of the Phoenix sports teams.
  
  Sally said there is a Fletcher Library on the West (and newer) Campus of Arizona State University (on the west side of Phoenix – the older campus is in Tempe, which is east or southeast of Phoenix). The library carries the Fletcher name because of a donation by her and her ex-husband (her second husband). I didn’t get to see the library.
  
  One of the things I had hoped to do in Arizona was to get some family information. The conversation at lunch, and throughout the day, was far more successful than I had hoped for in that respect. Sally’s brothers and sisters (all older than her) were R. G. Fields (November 6, 1912 – July 5, 1975), Virgil Lindsey Fields (September 15, 1914 – July 22, 1982), Janette Rankin Fields (About 1916 to present), and Eloise Katherine Fields (December 29, 1918 – November 16, 1990). The name “R. G.” was originally just initials, but he later chose the names “Richard George” to go along with his initials (I later found his Social Security number and date of birth in the Social Security Death Index under, I believe, the name Richard Fields). Some of the dates listed in this paragraph are from a visit to Greenwood Cemetery the next day, and from some internet research I did after returning to South Carolina (both kinds of research are much easier once you know the names of the people you are looking for).
  
  Her older sister Janette (married name Pucek) is living in northern California in a nursing home, but has a form of dementia and seldom recognizes either Sally or Janette’s daughter Susan. (Janette lived near Redding CA, I presume she still lives there or near there.) I met Janette once when I was an adult, in San Francisco in 1988 (I believe I also met her at least once when I was a child). She called me shortly after I moved to South Carolina (perhaps in the summer or fall of 1990) and asked me to meet her in Atlanta on an upcoming weekend, where she was going to visit her sister (who, I’m sure was Sally). I couldn’t go (perhaps it was right after I started work in South Carolina and was scheduled to work that weekend – I know we worked lots of overtime when I first came down here). I really regret now that I did not go to Atlanta that weekend – I could have gotten to know Sally 10 years earlier than I did.
  
  
                                                    Carl C. Fields
                                                    April-May 2005.
  
• [S940] Janet Ward, Love Cemetery (Cedar Springs, Cedar County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 May 2013), George P. Kuhn, Memorial No. 67684838.
• [S942] Janet Ward, Love Cemetery (Cedar Springs, Cedar County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 May 2013), Peter J. Kuhn, Memorial No. 67684950.
• [S943] Shirley Houk, Love Cemetery (Cedar Springs, Cedar County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 May 2013), Phelomina "Minnie" Aulbach Kuhn, Memorial No. 67684932.
• [S994] Virgil L Fields Grave Marker, Greenwood Cemetery Phoenix, Arizona; recorded by Carl Fields, March 2005. In Block 10, Section 57S. Military grave marker. Virgil L Fields and Elinore Fields are in the same plot (her name is also listed twice on the summary records provided by the cemetery, with and without her middle initial "L". The "marker name" used in this citation most likely corresponds to the name on the marker or on burial records (e.g., married surnames may appear for women). The name "Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery" was in use in March 2005 (and is current as of May 2013). This cemetery was created in 1989 by the merger of the adjacent Greenwood and Memory Lawn Cemeteries. Several family members were interred before that merger, so their burial records, obituaries, death certificates, etc., will use one of the older names, probably most commonly the Greenwood name.
• [S995] Elinore Fields Grave Marker, Greenwood Cemetery Phoenix, Arizona; recorded by Carl Fields, March 2005. In Block 10, Section 57S. Military grave marker. Virgil L Fields and Elinore Fields are in the same plot (her name is also listed twice on the summary records provided by the cemetery, with and without her middle initial "L". The "marker name" used in this citation most likely corresponds to the name on the marker or on burial records (e.g., married surnames may appear for women). The name "Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery" was in use in March 2005 (and is current as of May 2013). This cemetery was created in 1989 by the merger of the adjacent Greenwood and Memory Lawn Cemeteries. Several family members were interred before that merger, so their burial records, obituaries, death certificates, etc., will use one of the older names, probably most commonly the Greenwood name.
• [S996] Mamie Chamberlain Fields Grave Marker, Greenwood Cemetery Phoenix, Arizona; recorded by Carl Fields, March 2005. Marker is in same plot as Elouise Katherine Fields (whose ashes are buried "over her mother's heart" as Sally Fletcher told Carl Fields in March 2005). Ada and Frank Chamberlain are adjacent; Della Sarah (Moore Fields) Clark marker is also nearby. In Block 14, Section 20. The "marker name" used in this citation most likely corresponds to the name on the marker or on burial records (e.g., married surnames may appear for women). The name "Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery" was in use in March 2005 (and is current as of May 2013). This cemetery was created in 1989 by the merger of the adjacent Greenwood and Memory Lawn Cemeteries. Several family members were interred before that merger, so their burial records, obituaries, death certificates, etc., will use one of the older names, probably most commonly the Greenwood name.
• [S1071] Charles Anson Fields grave marker, Sanger Cemetery, Sanger, ; read by Carl Fields, approximately 2005. This cemetery is located at 605 South Rainbow Avenue. Sanger is in Fresno County.
• [S1120] Rubye P Eberle, Certificate of Death Local Registration Number 3 1999 19008428, State File Number 3 051999 060791, Pomona, Los Angeles County, California (21 Feb 1999 (4:30 AM)), unknown repository, unknown repository address.
• [S1121] Marvin Jewel Fields, Certificate of Death Local Registration Number 1008 2273, State File Number 83-078423, Fresno, Fresno County, California (4 July 1983 (10:30 PM)), unknown repository, unknown repository address.
• [S1122] Sammie Fields, Certificate of Death Registration District No. 1054, Registratar's Number F432 858, State File Number 50-034018, Sanger, Fresno County, California (23 April 1950 (3:30 AM)), unknown repository, unknown repository address. No middle name is listed on the death certificate. The "F432" was written by hand onto the certificate near the locaton of the registrar's number -- it is unclear that it was intended to be part of that number.
• [S1173] Ruth May King, Certificate of Death Local Registration District 1008, Local Certificate Number 2456, State File Number 83-092378, Fresno, Fresno County, California (21 Jul 1983 (3:10 AM)), unknown repository, unknown repository address. Informant was Ronald Scott (son), 419 O Street, Snager California 93657.
• [S1245] Rufus Sherman Fields, Certificate of Death Local Registration District 1008, Local Certificate Number 2524, State File Number 82-103907, Fresno, Fresno County, California (29 Ju1 1982), unknown repository, unknown repository address.
• [S1252] Edgar Garth Fields, Certificate of Death Local Registration District 390100, Local Certificate Number 03017, State File Number 90-119103, Fresno, Fresno County, California (22 July 1990), unknown repository, unknown repository address.
• [S1393] "Obit: George E Fields," Sanger (California) Herald,21 Nov 1957, page 5A; microfilm, Fresno County Public Library, Sanger Branch Library, a secondary image was created by photographing the article from the display screen of a microfilm viewer using a digital camera (this image was later edited to improve contrast and to remove nearby articles not of primary interest). This individual's middle initial is usually given as "A". The first "Cecil" listed among his brothers should probably be "Charles". The married surname of his sister who lived in Arkansas at the time of his death should be Southard, not Summers.
• [S1442] "Michigan Marriage Records, 1867-1952," database, Ancestry.com, (http://www.ancestry.com : 3 Mar 2015), entry for Mabry E Bowden and Ena A McNairy, 13 Oct 1942 (County File No. 597403, State File No. 278858, Film: 315, Film Title: 82 Wayne 276100-279369), Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015; based on "Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1953," Micihigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics. This database with images was probably "found" on Ancestry.com as "Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Marriage Index, 1889-1951," database only Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).
• [S1483] 1940 U. S. Census, Wayne County, Detroit, Michigan, population schedule, Enumeration District 84-99, page 2A, Line 29, Household 60 (visited 3 April 1940), Alyce Fields -- informant was head of household; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields 16 Aug 2015), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 1842, image 163.
• [S1649] "U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963," database with images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 20 Sept 2014), entry for Sammie S Fields, Death Date: 23 April 1950, Cemetery: Maplewood Cemetery, Luverne Minnesota; based on National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Applications for Headstones for U. S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941, National Archives Microfilm Publication A1, 2110-C; Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Washington DC, Record Group Number 92 (this is apparently also known as Microfilm Publication M1915 and has "ARC ID: 596118).
  
  The Ancestry informaiton is apparently also based, in part, on Applications for Headstones, compiled 01/01/1925 - 06/30/1970, documenting the period ca 1776 - 1970, ARC ID:596119, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92, National Archives at Washington, DC.
• [S1664] Arizona Department of Health Services, "Arizona Office of Vital Records," digital images, Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates, (http://genealogy.az.gov : accessed by Carl Fields 21 Nov 2016), Registrar's Number 1844) Judy Fields Death Certificate (State File Number 295, 28 Nov 1941. Also available on Ancestry.com, "Arizona, Death Records, 1887-1960," 2016, orig. data: Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona Death Records.
• [S1670] "Official Military Personnel File (OMPF), Virgil Lindsey Fields , Serial Number 882-55-45 (US Navy, Enlisted 18 Aug 1943)"; National Personnel Records Center (National Archives); 1 Archives Drive, St Louis, Missouri. About 75% if the records for veterans of the US Army (and Army Air Corps) during World War I and World War II (and the period between these wars) were lost due to a large fire in this facilty in 1973. However, this loss did not affect US Navy and US Marine Corps records.
  
  The file was received from the National Archives branch in St Louis, Missouri. It contains 87 pages and appears to be fairly complete. The pages (including the transmittal letter written in 2016) were numbered to record the sequence in which they were received, which is not chronological or reverse chronological, although page 2 (the first page of the 1940-era file, following the 2016 transmittal letter) appears to be a "separation paper". The entire file was then scanned. The file contains several duplicate items, some items that are obvious errors (probably typographical), and some puzzling inconsistencies. It appears that some of the original pages had information on both sides of a sheet, and both sides were copied (even though, in some cases, little or no information specific to the individual was on the reverse side).
  
  Interesting items (keyed to the handwritten page numbers):
  
  Pages 2 and 3: 2 Dec 1945, Separation Papers (the two pages are identical) issued at San Pedro, California. At time of separation he was "Ship Fitter, 2nd Class, (SR) (T), V-6". The SR stands for Ship Repair. The V-6 indicates General Service and Specialists in the US Naval Reserve. It is unclear what the "T" is for, possibly temporary.
  
  Page 4: looks like a record of a previous occasion when this file was checked out (in 1949). No family history value.
  
  Pages 5, 6, 37-41 and 61: Pages appear to be related to 10 days annual leave apparently actually taken 14 June 1945 to 24 June 1945 (in or around Sydney, Australia), but paperwork began in April 1945. Once he moved to the Pacific, documents listed his "location" as either "Lion 4" or "Base 3205", possibly to avoid revealing actual geographic location. However, the name "Manus" appears on at least one document (page 41).
  
  Pages 7 to 14, 44, 45, and 55-58: possibly partly filled out at time of induction physical in June 1943 and partly at time of induction (or enlistment) 28 Aug 1943. He appears to have been living in Nantahala (or maybe Franklin), Macon County, North Carolina at the time he registered for the draft (possibly in June 1941; he might have been working on a construction job there). But he was back in Arizona at the time of his physical exam and induction (although the forms also mention employment doing concrete labor related to a "Denver Ordnance Plant"; "Denver" apparently refers to a work location, page 2 of the file indicates his pre-induction employer was headquartered in Arizona, but may have had a contract to do work in Colorado). Document forms mention: his civilian pay at the time of his induction was $160/month (but page 42 suggests he had been at jobs where his pay was as much as $100/week); he may have been separated from his wife at the time at least a portion of the document was filled out; address (at time of induction) was 310 E. Rose Lane, Phoenix, Arizona; wife was "Eleanor (None) Fields"; height: 5 ft 10.5 inches; weight: 172 pounds; eye color: blue (actually "blu 8" - the "8" might have represented a shade of blue (?)); hair color: medium brown; seems to indicate he had a dental bridge; blood pressure: 110/60; vision: 20/20 in both eyes; tattoo ("Duke") on upper right forearm; three arrests by police (1937, 1937,and 1941, the first and last were related to vehicle infractions, stated he had no criminal convictions, although he had been fined $5 for disorderly conduct in 1937); and arranged for life insurance, with wife as beneficiary, listing two minor children (known to actually be stepchildren, although that is not mentioned in this military file; their actual legal surname was probably Caggiano at this time): Robert Alfred Fields (b 2-13-34) and James Gary Fields (b 6-26-37). Page 57 gives fingerprints. Page 58 indicates he was blood type "A".
  
  Pages 15, 16 (10 Oct 1945), 47, 49-50 (10 Sept 1943), and 62-65 (10 Oct 1945 and 28 Aug 1943) contain insurance beneficiary information similar to information in pages 13 and 14 (although birthdates of son and stepsons on pages 15 and 16 and on some other pages). The 10 Sept 1943 forms indicate he intended any insurance payments in the event of his death to be split 70%-30% between his wife and his mother. Page 62 has incorrect birth dates of son and stepsons. Pages 63 and 64 appear to be almost identical to pages 15 and 16.
  
  Pages 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 28 deal with transfers (some of these pages are probably reverse sides).
  
  Pages 22, 31, 74 and 78 deal with travel outside the continental US. Pages 22 and 74 indicate he left US on 27 March 1944, crossed equator (becoming a "shellback") on 3 April 1944 (aboard U. S. A. T. Sea Flasher), crossed International Date Line on 9 April 1944, and qualified for Asiatic-Pacific Theater Campaign Medal on 5 May 1944 (page 22 is a duplicate - carbon copy -- of page 74). Pages 31 and 78 indicate he left US on 22 April 1944, crossed equator (becoming a shellback) on 5 May 1944 (aboard "U. S. A. T. Sloterdjk", the actual name is "Sloterdijk"), crossed International Date Line on 11 May 1944, and qualified for Asiatic-Pacific Theater Campaign Medal on 5 June 1944 (page 31 appears to be a carbon copy of page 78). Both sets of these forms appear to have the dates and the descriptions of activities of each of the date pre-printed on them, with the name, service number, etc. for each individual sailor typed onto the form later. It's possible that (at some later time) he was in an overseas unit where some individuals had come over on one ship and some on another ship, and cards for both ships were inadvertently placed in his file. It's also possible that he traveled across the Pacific on two different ships (part of the trip on one and part on the other), but complete voyage information for both ships was placed in his file, even though he was on each ship for only a portion of its Pacific Ocean voyage.
  
  Page 23 apparently documents a promotion from S 2rd class (SR) to SF 3nd class (SR), effective 15 Dec 1943, going from basic seaman (S 2nd class) to his "rating" (occupational specialty, SF 3rd class). Navy enlisted grades, or ranks, are that a lower numbered "class" in a given "category" is a higher rank or grade (i.e., "second class seaman" is higher than "third class seaman"). However, this change is a promotion because he was going from the "seaman" category to the (higher)"petty officer" category with a rating (Shipfitter, or SF). That is, the lowest class petty officer (rating) is a higher grade than the highest class (ordinary) seaman. This probably triggered a monthly pay increase from $56 to $78. (A web site identified below provides a listing of pay rates as of 1942. Not clear if (and if so, when) these pay rates were increased later during the war.)
  
  Pages 24-27, 59, 60, 69, and 70 apparently deal with completion of various types of training.
  
  Page 29 apparently documents a promotion from SF 3rd class (SR) to SF 2nd class (SR) (T), effective 2 Oct 1945. This probably triggered a monthly pay increase from $78 to $96. The meaning of the "(T)" in the rating is unclear (possibly "Temporary" (?)).
  Pages 30 and 32-35 apparently deal with transfers (some of these appear to copies of reverse sides).
  
  Pages 36 and 51-54 (13 Oct 1945) appear to be related to transfer to US for discharge. Page 36 of this set gives a list of service apparently at the time of leaving his base in the Southwest Pacific prior to returning to the US on 13 Oct 1945 (service at that time was 2 years, 1 month, and 16 days). Page 52 in this set mentions third son, Douglas (said on this page to be born 4/5/45, but it was probably really 4/5/44) and gives incorrect (1945) birth year for other two sons (stepsons).
  
  Pages 42 and 43 appear to be a personal background information form filled out on 10 Sept 1943 (when he would have been in basic training). Indicates he has 4 dependents (he had wife and two stepchildren - not clear if 4th one was himself, or possibly his mother); religious preference: Presbyterian; left high school in Nov 1931 (Phoenix Union High School); attended barber college for 6 months (1931), but "now" uses that skill only as a hobby; avocation is picture developing, photography; "sports in which qualified": amateur boxing; had worked as Foreman on Construction Gang (various employers), 9 year experience, wage rate: $100/week, qualified as "Rigger" (with W. I. as "trade test rating" (?)); extensive list of "duties, skills, machines" including: construction, demolition, pipes, timbering, cribbing, sealing, rigging, assembly of truss members, rivet gang driver, apparently in charge of dismantling water tanks and distillation plant on Italian Army base, dry dock construction, some welding and setting of heavy equipment; had been in Eriteria Africa from Mar 1942 until May 1943 while dismantling the Italian Army Base ("work" there included serving on guard detail between Sept 1942 and April 1943 in "A. V. G." - possibly armed volunteer guard?); and had some "working knowledge" of Arabic, Italian, and Spanish languages.
  
  Page 46 (6 Sept 1943) list of duties he was medically qualified for.
  
  Page 48 seems to be from 1944 indicating he had filed forms for power of attorney and a will.
  
  Pages 66-68, 72, 73, 75-77, and 79-87 are personnel and transfer forms of various types. Page 67 -- and certain other pages in the file -- indicates his enlistment (or induction) was for 2 years. However, page 55 indicates "DOW" (duration of the war).
  Page 80 documents a unit commendation (for efforts of the "Repair Unit, Navy 3205). Page 83 deals with a promotion (and appears to be the original of page 29, i.e., page 29 is a carbon copy of page 83). Page 85 gives the best summary of his career duty stations. Page 87 notes honorable discharge.
  
  Digital images of selected pages are included as exhibits to illustrate this source. Several of the pages that are not included are either at least partial duplicates of other pages or else contain little pertinent information.
  
  
  Several web sites were consulted, which helped to understand and interpret this file. These incuded: background on lion-type naval bases
  
  (https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/…); Manus Island (epad.com/asopa_people/2014/04/remembering-when-world-war-ii-came-to-manus-province.html), (http://www.manusisland.com/maps/manus-in-png-map.html), (https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Building_Bases/…), and (https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Building_Bases/maps/…); US Navy enlisted ratings and salary, salary is as of 1942, not sure if it increased later during WW2 (http://www.cv6.org/company/muster/organization.htm) and, for ratings only (https://bluejacket.com/usn_ratings.html); and base location codes (https://bluejacket.com/usn-usmc_ww2_location-codes.html). All of these web sites were accessed in early December 2016.
  
  
  Note from compiler (Carl Fields), December 2016: I do not recall ever hearing of Manus Island prior to receiving this Navy personnel file from the US National Archives. However, a small amount of internet research on the island indicates that in the years following World War II, Australia tried several Japanese soldiers on that island for war crimes committed there (several of these soldiers were convicted and executed). These were part of a series of war crimes trials conducted by the Australian government at several locations around the Pacific. In addition, several former Japanese soldiers convicted of lesser crimes (at Manus and at other trial locations) were imprisoned on Manus for some years. In the mid-1950s, the Australian government began commuting lengthy sentences handed out to some of these former soldiers. All of them had been released by late 1956 or early 1957. I had never previously known about these war crimes trials conducted by Australia. The web references that follow provide some sites that describe these trials (these are only a sampling of a larger number of web sites):
  
  http://www.brill.com/products/book/…
  
  http://hellfire-pass.commemoration.gov.au/after-the-war/…
  
  https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~changmin/documents/…
  
  http://apcml.org/post-wwii-war-crimes-trials
  
  http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2014/04/….
  
  
  
• [S1738] Tony Greenfield (and Bobbi Bradley Long), Find A Grave Web Site, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 4 March 2017), Bertha A Cantrell Gipson, Memorial No. 687988818.
• [S1778] Robert Leroy Gilliatt Obituary, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2002 (date of publication), digital transcription; posted by Pat Wilson (23 Dec 2009), The Digital Archive, (http://obits.arizonagravestones.org : accessed 29 May 2017).
  
  Edited text of obituary:
  
  Robert Leroy Gilliatt, 83, of Phoenix Arizona, died June 28, 2002. Robert was born June 28, 1919 in Washington, Indiana.
  
  Marriage encounter and participated in walk to Aemmaus. He is survived by his wife: Aline A. Gilliatt; 10 grandchildren; 6 great grandchildren; son: Howard; daughters: Linda Susan Burton, Sandra Kay Drealan, and Deborah Gilliatt; and sisters: Wilma Ellis and Rosemary Lee. Military service: WWII, Airforce.
  
  Services on Tuesday, July 2, 2002 at Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church, 3039 W. Cactus Road, Phoenix, AZ. Interment of cremation at Holy Cross Cemetery, 10045 W. Thomas Road., Avondale, AZ. Contributions to Hospice of Arizona, 2222 W. Northern Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85021 or Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church, 3039 W. Cactus Road, Phoenix, AZ.
  
  Published in The Arizona Republic July 02, 2002.
• [S1780] Aline Gilliatt Obituary, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr 2016 (date of publication), digital transcription; Legacy.com, (http://www.legacy.com : accessed 29 May 2017).
  
  Edited text of obituary:
  
  "Gilliatt, Aline
  Aline Amelia "Amy" Gilliatt, passed away March 29, 2016, at the age of 93. Born in Bokoshe, OK., on July 30, 1922. Amy moved to the Phoenix area in 1942. In the early years she worked for Safeway grocery and Sears, where she met and fell in love with Robert, and they married on November 27, 1957. Also, in 1957, she went to work for the City of Phoenix. Over the years, even while holding her full time job, Amy devoted a great deal of time to Marriage Encounter, AZ. Walk to Emmaus, her church, community, and made many dear friends. She retired from her career position with the City after 30+ years of service. Preceded in death by mother Clara Tolbert and her beloved husband of 45 years. Survived by son Howard (Debbie) of Tucson, daughters Linda Susan of Mesa, Sandra Kaye (Drealan, Richard J.) of New Boston, MI., Deborah Gail of Phx, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren and niece Dr. Judith Kyle of Locust Grove, VA., and Lisa Hammond and family. Amy will be remembered for her love of family and friends. A memorial service will be held at Shepard of the Valley UMC, 3039 W. Cactus Rd., Phx, AZ., 85029. TIME: 11:00AM DATE: May 14, 2016. Memorial contributions may be made to Arizona Palliative Home Care or Shepard of the Valley UMC.
  
  Published in The Arizona Republic on Apr. 10, 2016"
  
  The above obit may have an incorrect year for her marriage to Robert L Gilliatt.

 

Compiler: Carl Fields

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